At least in theory, public polls demonstrate the public attitude and public perception of certain issues. In a democracy, the government should represent the desires of the people. Getting a measurement of what people want and think is important.

There are questions about how well the polls are conducted and exactly how well they represent the 'mood' of the populace. An article by Nate Silver, "Here’s Proof Some Pollsters Are Putting A Thumb On The Scale" discusses this issue very well.

We would like to think that before the United States attacks another country with the approval of American citizens, there would be sufficient information to justify such action. In hind-sight, we look back and regret that we fell for the lies and deceptions that led us to attack Iraq where we falsely believed there was a stock-pile of 'weapons of mass destruction'.

The American people, fresh from that particular mistake have been asked whether or not we should bomb another country. The pollsters didn't offer any justification for the bombing attack on this country. They allowed that the citizens themselves would want to be informed before making such a decision. They only asked whether or not we should bomb.

People's attitudes are probably effected by current events and since we are in the midst of a bombing frenzy, why not get all of the 'evil' countries/leaders at one time. So, it is maybe easier to include another country to the list of targeted countries.

​Several presidential candidates from both political parties are calling for very aggressive military campaigns against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Trump says that as president he would "bomb the shit" out of ISIS. Ted Cruz has used the concept of making the sand "glow" in bombing raids if he were president.

The response about bombing another country might have changes somewhat if people were informed that we have been dropping so many bombs lately that we are running out of bombs to drop. Maybe one would want to hold off on the additional bombing until production catches up with bombing raids.

​Our mentality has become numb with war and bombing and killing and it has become difficult to distinguish one enemy from the other. Perhaps there's a national feeling , "Let's just bomb them all and be done with it."

With this type of background, the pollsters asked, should we bomb? And, in keeping with the national attitude of self-preservation and the ideals of the national security state, the people have responded to the polls. Due to the nature of this very serious security threat the evil nation of Agrabah poses to the United States, 30 percent of us believe that the United States should intervene by bombing the country.

A difficulty with this approach to world affairs is that locating this country on the map is hard to do. Agrabah is the fictitious Arabian nation from Disney's 1992 animated film "Aladdin."

For many of us, living in this country with the hate campaigns dominating the landscape, when asked about bombing anyplace that sounds Arabian, the response is visceral, "Bombs Away".